Mostly Books Staff Picks
Let the experienced booksellers at Mostly Books pick your next read: find our favourite fiction, non-fiction and children's books here. We have a particular interest in Australian authors and women's stories.
Dirt Poor Islanders
By: Winnie Dunn
Narrated by: 'Ana Ika
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We lived with generations upon generations stacked in fibro houses together. We became half-White together. We stayed poor together. Together. Together. Together.'
For Meadow Reed, a half-Tongan, half-White girl, the... Read more
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Honeybee
By: Craig Silvey
Narrated by: Harvey Zielinski
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.'
Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below.
At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vic, smokes his last cigarette.
The two see... Read more
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Love Objects
By: Emily Maguire
Narrated by: Zoe Carides
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
A stunning, simply told story of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident.
'Bold, furious, unapologetic and deeply insightful.'
Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours
'A stunning, immersive novel that will change the conversation about class and about what possessions mean. It's... Read more
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Before You Knew My Name
By: Jacqueline Bublitz
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth birthday, carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city’s latest Jane Doe, an unidentified murder victim. Ruby Jones is also trying to start over; she travelled halfway around the world only to find herself... Read more
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Bodies of Light
By: Jennifer Down
Narrated by: Casey Withoos
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
A masterwork of tragedy and heartbreak from the two-time Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year.
A quiet, small-town existence. An unexpected Facebook message, jolting her back to the past. A history she’s reluctant to revisit: dark memories and unspoken trauma, warning knocks on bedroom walls, unfathomable loss.
She became a new person... Read more
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Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
Narrated by: Zoe Carides
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.
Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom – the fresh open water, squid-rich reefs, fires on private beaches –... Read more
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Runt
By: Craig Silvey
Narrated by: Genevieve Hegney
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones and Honeybee.
'You don't have to carry the weight of the world in your tool belt.'
Annie Shearer likes to fix things. She lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt. The two share a... Read more
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It Sounded Better in My Head
By: Nina Kenwood
Narrated by: Maddy Withington
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
When her parents announce their impending separation, Natalie can’t understand why no one is fighting or at least mildly upset. And now that Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, have fallen in love, she’s feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward.
Where does she fit in now? And what has happened to the version of her life that played out like... Read more
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His Name Was Walter
By: Emily Rodda
Narrated by: Wendy Bos
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
From Australia's favourite storyteller comes a story that shows us the extraordinary power of true love and solves a decades-old mystery.
Once upon a time, in a dark city far away, there lived a boy called Walter, who had nothing but his name to call his own ...The handwritten book, with its strangely vivid illustrations, has been hidden in the... Read more
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Between a Wolf and a Dog
By: Georgia Blain
Narrated by: Taylor Owynns
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the anxieties of the middle class: loneliness, relationships, death. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships are tense and frayed. Ester is yearning to fall in love again. Meanwhile, her sister is struggling through her own... Read more
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The Lost Man
By: Jane Harper
Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Three brothers, one death, a fenceline stretching to the horizon. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle... Read more
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The White Girl
By: Tony Birch
Narrated by: Shareena Clanton
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
A searing new novel from leading Indigenous storyteller Tony Birch that explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love.
Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under... Read more
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The Weekend
By: Charlotte Wood
Narrated by: Taylor Owynns
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
From the Winner of the Stella Prize for The Natural Way of Things
Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts for the remaining three. Can they survive together without her? They are Jude, a once-famous restaurateur, Wendy, an acclaimed public... Read more
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Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
WINNER OF THE 2019 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD
Shortlisted - The Stella Prize
Shortlisted - ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year
Shortlisted - NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Multicultural NSW Award
Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things – her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying and she’s an inch away from... Read more
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